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entries as the winner of the World Trade Center memorial
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stopped by the College of Architecture to talk to students.

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The director of Georgia Tech's Center for Nanoscience and
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Stress Busters
One alumnus relaxes by blasting off in a fighter plane.
Another forgets her troubles by creating stained glass art.
Georgia Tech alumni combat job stress with a myriad of activities, from Whitewater canoeing to racing, gardening to yoga
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MAGAZINE. So it was with great
dismay that I read a recent Web
posting that the undersea laboratory — the only one in the
world — may be closed due to
budget cuts.
The University of North
Carolina at Wilmington manages the underwater research
lab named Aquarius, a 400square-foot capsule moored 63
feet below the surface off of
Key Largo, Ha., and the federal
government pays for a portion
of its operation.
Financing for the National
Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration undersea
research arm has been flat for
years. This fiscal year the
National Undersea Research
Program saw its budget fall
from $13.5 million to $12 million. The current budget proposal recommends cutting an
additional $1 million.
The university gets about
$1.3 million to manage the
lab, which primarily covers
operating and maintenance
costs. Researchers, institutions and grants cover most
of the mission expenses —
like those incurred by Mark Hay
and his group featured in your
article.
Not only is Aquarius a
resource for marine biologists
and other researchers, NASA
astronauts have trained at the
lab for several years to help
them prepare for the rigors of
space travel, sometimes
spending a week or longer in
utter isolation below the sea.
The intense isolation in a very
inhospitable yet simultaneously
beautiful environment is an
excellent analogue to outer
space. This summer NASA will

send four astronauts to test
new communication methods
and exercise equipment for
long-duration space travel.
Aquarius was built in 1986
and has been refurbished twice
since. The fact that the lab has
been in the Florida Keys for so
long makes it even more valuable as a research site, as it

luch has been said and written about
I the issue of white-collar jobs being
transferred offshore — especially in technology. Indeed there are no
easy answers. It's a
tremendous challenge
for the United States and
other developed
economies. Is this what
globalization is all
about?
Alan Greenspan
recently said, "We can
erect walls to foreign trade and even discourage job-displacing innovation. The pace of
competition would surely slow and tensions
might appear to ease — but only for a short
while. Our standard of living would soon begin
to stagnate and perhaps even decline as a
consequence. Time and again through our history, we have discovered that attempting merely to preserve the comfortable features of the
present —• rather than reaching for new levels
of prosperity — is a sure path to stagnation."
He's right about protectionism and its ultimate
consequences.
You can also argue that we've been beneficiaries of offshoring by foreign companies.
Just within the auto industry, three examples
come to mind: the BMW plant in Greer, S.C.,
the Mercedes plant in Vance, Ala., and the
Toyota plant in San Antonio. Looking at other
industries yields examples of economic benefit
to the United States and examples of the
opposite. There are no easy answers.
The one thing that will enable us to navigate these waters successfully is our ability to
innovate. To survive we have to adapt — to
thrive we have to innovate. That's what the
United States is all about and that's what
Georgia Tech is all about.
The Georgia Tech Alumni Association is
about helping you thrive as well — whether it's
career support or networking opportunities or if
you'd like to give your time and expertise.

Joseph P. Irwin
Vice President and Executive Director

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passes a nearly two decade
long data record that is
unparalleled anywhere else
in the world, The research
that's done there has a
national and international
impact. Aquarius allows
researchers to do in a few
days what could otherwise
take several weeks.
Aquarius cannot operate without federal support.
We need continued funding
of this unique resource.
Jud Ready, MatE 94,
MS MetE 97, PhD 00
Adjunct professor and
research engineer II
Georgia Tech
Research Institute

erance for other people's
tastes in music. It exposed
me to a broad range of different cultural and arts fields
that I would have not otherwise experienced in an
engineering curriculum.
I am happy that I can
now support Tech and
WREK. I will send a check
to the WREK Momentum
Fund and hope other alumni
will also.
Juan J. Florensa, CE 79
Sarasota, Fla.

Wonderful Friend'
Tech 'reluctantly' drops DuPree name from management college

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lumnus Tom DuPree's name has
been removed from Georgia
Tech's College of Management after
he acknowledged it is unlikely he will
be able to fulfill a $25 million pledge
on schedule.
Thomas E. DuPree Jr., IM 74,
who made millions in the restaurant
business, had attempted to share his
wealth with Georgia Tech and then
lost it. He made a $5 million gift in
1994 for the DuPree Center for
Entrepreneurship and New Ventures.
In 1996, he pledged another $20 million that resulted in the management
college being named for him.
DuPree founded Madison, Ga.based Avado Brands and built the
nation's largest franchise of
Applebee's. But the company fell on
hard times and last November
DuPree was removed as chairman
and chief executive officer. In
February, the company filed for
Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

"Circumstances reluctantly have
led us to the decision to remove the
DuPree name from the college," Tech
President Wayne Clough says.
DuPree is "a wonderful friend
and alumnus who made an incredibly
generous pledge" to endow the college, Clough says. DuPree has paid
$5.7 million toward the $25 million
pledge.
"We retain the utmost respect for
Tom DuPree and all of his remarkable
accomplishments and many philanthropic activities," Clough says. "To
honor his legacy to date, Georgia Tech
will establish a scholarship program
in his name for students from his
home county to attend Georgia Tech."
Clough says the decision was
taken after "recognizing the reality of
the circumstances Georgia Tech faces.
Our ultimate goal is to ensure that the
college has the resources needed to
educate the technologically astute
business leaders of the future. Tom

Despite good intentions, Tom DuPree's
company fell on hard times. Tech has
established a scholarship in his name.

DuPree will remain a valued member
of our Georgia Tech family, and his
advice and assistance will help us
reach our high aspirations."

Anonymous Donor Creates $15 million Challenge

A

n anonymous donor has made a $15 million challenge gift to accelerate private support for the
College of Management. The donor will match gifts to
the Georgia Tech Foundation designated for the college
and unrestricted in their use. Gifts and pledges started
by Oct. 1, 2003, and fulfilled by June 30, 2007, will qualify for the one-to-one matching dollars.
"This generous challenge commitment offers us
the opportunity, with the help of others who will match
the gift, to complete the funding of our dramatic new
management building at Technology Square," President
Wayne Clough says.
"Closure on this obligation will place our College
of Management in position to focus its future efforts
toward shaping technology-related programs that will
distinguish us from the rest of the pack," Clough says.
"The possibilities that lie ahead for this college are
remarkable and taking advantage of them will quickly
bring its reputation in line with that of our outstanding
College of Engineering."

Because the donor wants to remain anonymous,
participants whose gifts receive matching funds will
get facility-naming recognition for the full amount â&#x20AC;&#x201D;
their gifts combined with the dollar-for-dollar match.
The challenge means that a 75-seat tiered classroom
that previously required a $250,000 commitment will be
named for $125,000. The College of Management building itself could be named for $7.5 million rather than
the full $15 million.
Terry Blum, dean of the College of Management,
says, "Our alumni have been very successful in the
world of business, and many of them have the means
to make generous personal commitments. I believe they
will meet this challenge head-on and push us over the
top in our effort to complete funding of our state-ofthe-art new building."
For more information about the challenge grant,
contact Philip D. Spessard, director of development for
the college, at (404) 385-1418 or by e-mail at philip.spessard@dev.gatech.edu.

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History and Tradition

Back issues of the
75th Anniversary
edition of the
Georgia Tech Alumni
Magazine.
Includes highlights from the
first issue in March 1923
through the Spring 1998.

F

ormer Sen. Sam Nunn, who heads
two Washington, D.C., think tanks
on national security and policy,
received the Ivan Allen Prize for
Progress and Service at the Ivan Allen
College Founder's Day celebration in
March.
Nunn, Cls 60, is a distinguished
professor in the Sam Nunn School of
International Affairs at Georgia Tech
named in his honor. The college
observed Founder's Day in conjunction with the Sam Nunn Bank of
America Policy Forum, which
explored the implications of "BioTerrorism Preparedness: The
Imperative for a Public-Private
Partnership."
Nunn is co-chair and chief executive officer of the Nuclear Threat

Initiative, a charitable organization
working to reduce the global threats
from nuclear, biological and chemical
weapons.
He also chairs the board of the
Center for Strategic and International
Studies, a Washington group seeking
practical ways to deal with the threat
of international terrorism. He entered
politics in 1968 as a member of the
Georgia House of Representatives. He
served in the U.S. Senate for 24 years,
from 1972 until 1996, and is retired
from the law firm King & Spalding.
Nunn served as chairman of the
Senate Armed Services Committee and
the Permanent Subcommittee on
Investigations. He also served on the
Intelligence and Small Business committees.
His legislative achievements
include the landmark Department of
Defense Reorganization Act, drafted
with the late Sen. Barry Goldwater,
and the Nunn-Lugar Cooperative
Threat Reduction Program, which provides assistance to Russia and the former Soviet republics for securing and
destroying their excess nuclear, biological and chemical weapons.
Nunn entered Tech in 1956 and
won the freshman cake race. Although
he was only 5 feet 11 inches tall, he
earned a spot on the Yellow Jacket basketball traveling squad his sophomore
year. After his junior year, he transferred to Emory University, where he
earned his law degree.

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bout half of the sand at the
world's tropical beaches has been
"processed" through the digestive
tracts of parrot fish, according to Mark
Hay, the Linda and Harry Teasely
chair in environmental biology at
Georgia Tech. The fish consume reefs
and other hard substrate, which is
ground up and quickly passed
through their systems.
"It's kind of like if buffalo came
through a McDonald's and ate the
whole parking lot in order to get the
grease out of it," he joked.
Hay shared his observations at a
February forum "Georgia Tech:
Innovating Here and Now," sponsored
by the Georgia Tech Alumni
Association at the Hotel and
Conference Center. More than 450
alumni and friends attended the event.
Georgia Tech faculty members
including Hay, Z.L. Wang, Ralph
Merkle, Andres Garcia and Marie
Thursby discussed innovative research
initiatives that include nanotechnology, tissue engineering, marine biology,
commercializing technology and the
ubiquitous computer.
In his introductory remarks,
President Wayne Clough noted that he
was sharing the dais with "some of the
greatest scholars in the world."
"Their work is helping to drive
Georgia Tech's growing reputation as a
center of innovation and a source of
new ideas that change the world for
the better, and we are privileged to
have them on our faculty," he said.
Hay's parrot fish comments were

made in the context of his presentation
about ways aquatic organisms interact
via chemical signals. The larger goal of
his research is to halt the rapid deterioration of coral reefs and foster the conditions necessary for them to thrive.
Wang's specialty â&#x20AC;&#x201D; nanotechnology, the engineering of materials at the
molecular or atomic levels â&#x20AC;&#x201D; holds
promise not only in the development
of ultrasmall devices, but given the
quantum mechanics involved at the
nano scale, entirely new materials can
be made with unusual and beneficial
properties. A professor of materials
engineering, Wang is the director of
the Center for Nanoscience and
Nanotechnology.
Credited with helping invent
Internet data encryption, Ralph
Merkle, professor of computing and
director of the Tech Information
Security Center, expressed concern for
the explosive rise in computer vandalism.
Andres Garcia, assistant professor
in the School of Mechanical
Engineering, said the idea behind tissue engineering is to "replace, repair,
maintain or enhance function through
the use of living cells, other natural
biological materials or both" in the
development of tissue substitutes.
Marie Thursby walked forum
attendees through her Technological
Innovation: Generating Economic
Results program, designed to instill
students with a full understanding of
the range of business issues associated
with technology commercialization.

Development of Rose Bowl
Field, a 10-acre tract that
included a grandstand, three
baseball diamonds and two
gridirons, was started in May
1929 and completed in
September. It was so named
because the project was largely financed from funds received
in Tech's Jan. 1 Rose Bowl
victory.

5 0 Years Ago
In the spring of
1954, D.M.
Smith, the
legendary
head of
mathematics,
and DP.
Savant, former
dean of engineering and former director of electrical engineering, both retired. Smith
recalled in the alumni magazine when, in an effort to speed
up registration, students were
routed directly to their departments. As registration was
about to close, one student
came back. "What do you
want?" Smith asked. "Another
deal," the student replied. "I
met all them professors and to
tell you the truth, I don't like the
looks of none of them."

2 5 Years Ago
The U.S. Department of the
Interior listed 10 acres of
Georgia Tech's "old campus"
on the National Register of
Historic Places. The old campus is bounded by North
Avenue, Techwood Drive, Third
Street and Cherry Street and
includes the J.S. Coon building
and the Rockefeller YMCA
building, now the
Alumni/Faculty House.

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lurched his way into
the Georgia Tech Library
and Information Center,
but there's no need to
pull out the pitchforks
and torches. He's there
to teach.
"Frankenstein:
Penetrating the
Secrets of Nature" is on
display in the library's Neely Gallery through
April 30 and examines the transformation of Mary
Shelley's creature from a literary figure into a cultural
phenomenon — and how the monster relates to the
debate over ethics and the pursuit of science.
"The exhibition addresses issues such as cloning
and genetic engineering, which raise difficult questions about the nature of human identity," says Kirk
Henderson, the library's records coordinator. "The
story of Frankenstein, as myth and as metaphor, can
help the public articulate and examine these fears."
The free exhibit is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Monday through Saturday and noon to 5 p.m. Sunday.

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Tech On Board
Next-generation Internet rail solely for research

G

eorgia Tech and a consortium of universities are forming alliances to tap thousands of miles of dark fiber
cable — a fiber-optic cable that is not carrying a signal —
buried by telecommunications companies at the height of
the Internet boom.
The universities, research agencies and leading-edge
technology companies already have leased more than
10,000 miles of surplus dark fiber-optic cable from
telecommunications firms and are preparing to initiate
National LambdaRail, a high-speed, next-generation network dedicated solely to research.
Ron Hutchins, chief technology officer and associate
vice provost for research and technology at Tech, and
Brian Savory, director of the Southern Light Rail project,
briefed the Georgia Senate Higher Education Committee
about the project in March.
"The purpose of the NLR is to access, exchange and
process huge quantities of scientific and research data to
this consortium which will allow breakthroughs in
research and development in biotechnology, advanced
communications and nanotechnology, the focal areas of
the Georgia Research Alliance," Hutchins says.
The state's six research universities — Georgia Tech,
Georgia State University, Clark Atlanta University, the
Medical College of Georgia, Emory University and the
University of Georgia — have been invited to join the
regional network initiative that will connect to the
National LambdaRail from a node at Tech.
Savory says the most pressing matter is forming
strategic alliances with companies that have access to dark
fiber cable, placed at the height of the Internet boom when
many companies overestimated the demand. Not long
ago, this equipment was very expensive, but today's
equipment is affordable and much easier to maintain.
In March, the link between Pittsburgh and Chicago
went live and by early June the link between Atlanta,
Raleigh, N.C., and Washington, D.C., should be activated.
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The $80 million proposed optical network will link universities
in about a dozen cities via a 10 gigabit-per-second connection.

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Strip Club Born Again
By Maria M. Lameiras

A

lumni Kim King and
Chris Smith are
orchestrating an arrangement to ensure that the former home of an Atlanta
strip club dances to a very
different tune.
In February, the
Christian Church
Buckhead, where Smith is
an associate minister, began
services in the former Gold
Club building at Piedmont
Road and Lindbergh Drive.
Kim King Associates —
owned by King, IM 68 —
and Gwinnett Partners own
the property and are leasing the building to the nondenominational congregation until they demolish the
building to raise an upscale
300-condominium tower.
The business partners
bought the 1.5-acre property from the U.S. government and an Augusta, Ga.,
family trust last year for
$5.25 million.
Smith, Mgt 99, says the
church was looking for a
home in the Buckhead area
of Atlanta when the idea to
locate in the former Gold
Club surfaced.
"To be honest, it was
kind of a joke at first, but

then we realized it was not
such a far-fetched idea,"
says Smith. After giving
some thought to the public
relations potential, Smith
and pastor Dan Garrett met
with King and secured a
temporary lease on the
building.
"He understood what
we were trying to do," says
Smith. "There has been a
lot of interest in the church
and, to my knowledge,
there has not been any negative feedback."
At the first Sunday
service, there were equal
numbers of the faithful and
the curious, Smith says.
"The first week we had
an initial surge of people —
some interested in the
church, others who wanted
to see what it looked like.
In week two, there were not
quite as many people, but
we have grown every week
since then," he says. "A lot
of people from the area
have also stopped by to say
they appreciate what we
are doing."
The strip club was
closed by federal authorities in 2001 after its former
owner, Steve Kaplan, pleaded guilty to racketeering
charges.

'Play Your
Own Game'
Bobby Jones was both mentor
and friend to Tommy Barnes
By Kimberly Link-Wills

B

obby Jones played his last round of golf
in July 1948. On the course with him at
East Lake Country Club was Tommy
Barnes, TM 38.
"I met Bobby Jones in 1931.1 was given an
honorary membership at East Lake and he was
out there all the time. He had just won the
Grand Slam. We became real close friends,"
Barnes says. "He was one of the nicest people I
ever met. He helped me a lot with my game. I
went on to win some big tournaments after I
met him."
Actually, Barnes, who was inducted into
Tech's Hall of Fame in 1960, won a lot of tournaments. He was the Southern Interscholastic
champion in 1934 and '38, the Southern States
Four-Ball champion in 1940, '41 and '46, the
Georgia State Amateur champion in 1941 and
the Southeastern PGA Open champ in 1946.
He won regional tournaments too numerous to
list.
Barnes was inducted into the Georgia
State Hall of Fame in 1981 and the Southern
Golf Association Hall of Fame in 1988. The
Georgia State Golf Association annually presents the Tommy Barnes Award to the overall
player of the year.
The Southern Golf Association credits
Barnes with preserving the East Lake Country
Club. "He orchestrated a move among friends
of Bobby Jones to buy the club from the
Atlanta Athletic Club in 1967 when the ACC
was moving north of Atlanta to Duluth. Had it
not been for his determination to preserve this
shrine to the great Bobby Jones, the East Lake
Country Club might not be around today for
golf historians to enjoy," the Hall of Fame
induction announcement reads.
Like Jones, Barnes never turned pro.
"There wasn't any money in it when I played,"
he says.
But Barnes remained competitive until
May 2002, when he broke his back in a car
accident. These days he's only able to "putt a
bit."

Reviewing the scorecard after Bobby Jones' final
round of golf are, left to right, Robert Ingram,
Tommy Barnes, Jones and Henry Lindener.

Throughout the 1930s and '40s, Barnes
and Jones golfed together at least once a
month. Barnes still remembers the advice
Jones gave him. "He said, 'Play one shot at a
time, don't try to play your opponent, play
your own game.'"
Barnes did not know that the round in
1948 would be the last he would play with
Jones, who was being crippled by
syringomyelia.
"He didn't say anything to me that day
about it. My goodness, he shot a 72 that last
round," Barnes says. "I ran into him downtown the next morning and he told me he'd
had some numbness in his legs and his arms.
"That same week he went into the hospital. I went over to see him and there was a 'no
admittance' sign on his door. I turned around
and started walking back up the hall and saw
his dad. His dad told me he was heavily sedated. I said, 'I'll come back later,' and he said,
'No, go on in, he'd like to see you, Tommy' I
didn't stay long. He had a patch on his neck. I
guess that's where they operated on him.
"He never played another round of golf. I
don't think he hit but one or two balls after
that. It was terrible. He wasn't but 46 years
old. He was playing some of the best golf he
ever played. He was a plus-4 handicap at the
time," Barnes says.
"T admired him more as a man than a
golfer because of the way he lived his life. He
lived an exemplary life. He was a great person," Barnes says.
"He was the best competitor I ever played
against. I tell you what, when you teed off you
had better try to get the best shot because he
was gonna try and beat you." GT

The reality of Technology Square.
Technology Square - a $ 180 million multibuMng complex that hurdles Atlanta's Downtown Connector and extends the
Georgia Tech campus across eight acres of Midtown real estate - was financed by the Georgia Tech Foundation.

T

echnology Square is home to Georgia Tech's College of
Management, a Global Learning Center, a Georgia Tech Hotel and
Conference Center, the Economic Development Center, Barnes &
Noble Bookstore, retail shops, restaurants and a parking deck. Across
the street is the Advanced Technology Development Center.
Technology Square is more than an expansion of the Georgia
Tech campus. It connects the campus to Atlanta's technology corridor,
And it's the engine that will drive the development of a high-tech business community in Midtown, says Georgia Tech President Wayne
Clough.
"Georgia Tech has influenced Atlanta economically with the number of high-tech businesses it has attracted," says Clough. 'And we
want and expect more to come. But you need a geographic center, a
highly visible entity that stands for Atlanta's high-tech corridor, and that
entity is Technology Square. The millions of people who travel down the
1-75/85 highway will see and identify this area as the technological
heartbeat of Atlanta."
Years from now, people may look back on Technology Square as

the benchmark of yet another identity for the city — as a crossroads for
ideas, innovation and new technology — but the opening of
Technology Square this summer is the fruition of a plan that began
many years ago. The decision to purchase derelict land across the
interstate was finalized in 1995.
A nonprofit that handles contributions and investments for the
Institute, the Georgia Tech Foundation bought the eight acres for $11.9
million in 1997.
John Aderhold, EE 45, IE 67, a trustee emeritus of the Georgia
Tech Foundation who has been instrumental in the World Congress
Center and the Georgia Dome, says Technology Square is a project
that "not only feeds what is going on in Atlanta and Midtown, it ties it all
together, from the Atlantic Steel project to the downtown development.
Activity begets activity. This is a step in a journey that started a long
time back and still has a long way to go, but it is a big step, a beautiful
step."
The Georgia Tech Foundation is planning ahead and helping prepare for Georgia Tech's success every step of the way.

en of Responsibility'
Michael Araci is creating one of America's most important memorials
E3y John Dunn

"he horror of 9/11, the tremendous sense of loss and
the devastating void left in the ruins of the twin towers of the World Trade Center drove Michael Arad to
react as an architect.
"I was very influenced personally by what happened on
September 11," says Arad, M Arch 99, who lives in New York
City and saw the second tower hit by the commercial jet
plane. "I felt a need to address it in some way, to relate to it
as an architect. I thought about an
idea for a memorial fairly early on
— a few months after the event."
Arad's design, "Reflecting
Absence," was selected for the
World Trade Center memorial in
January over 5,201 entries from 63
countries.
Arad, 34, was on campus
March 22 when he spoke to a class
of architecture students that filled
the room and spilled into the hallway.
"Not that long ago, Michael was sitting where you are,"
Doug Allen, associate dean of Tech's College of Architecture,
told the students.
In a soft-spoken voice, Arad gave a slide presentation
and reviewed the process that led to the Lower Manhattan
Development Corp. jury awarding him the commission to
build one of the nation's most important memorials.
Arad's original concept was to create a memorial in the
Hudson River "that would make very present and visible the
absence of something," he says. The idea was to carve two

20 GEORGIA TECH • Spring 2004

voids in the river. Although the flow of water was continuous, the voids "could never be filled, could never be forgotten."
After building a model of the Hudson River memorial,
Arad says he "put it aside and forgot about it for a year or
so" — until the design competition for a memorial was
announced.
Arad was at home on Sept. 11, 2001, when he heard on
the radio that one of the towers had
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been hit by a plane.
"I thought, like so many other
people, that this was a freak accident
involving a small plane," Arad
remembers. "I went and peeked out
of the window from my bedroom and
saw smoke rising through the tower. I
went up to the roof of my apartment
building and saw the second tower
get hit by an airplane. It was a very
difficult thing to see."
He attempted to phone his wife,
Melanie Fitzpatrick, CP 97, who worked downtown. "I
couldn't get her on the phone, so I went downtown to find
her. It's not far from where we live. People were streaming
uptown. I found her and we were walking back home. We
were on Fulton Street by the East River when the first tower
came down. I didn't realize it at the time because where we
were, you couldn't see the tower.
"All of a sudden people started running around and
there was a big cloud of smoke. We were by the Williamsburg
Bridge by the time the second tower fell," Arad says.

"There were many people streaming over the bridges,
walking â&#x20AC;&#x201D; everyone in their work clothes. It was very
strange to come back home after a couple of hours and the
towers were gone from the skyline."
In the aftermath of the horrific loss of life and the devastation, Arad says New Yorkers reached out to each other.
Arad is the son of Moshe Arad, who was the Israeli ambassador to the United States during the Reagan Administration.
He grew up in Israel, the United States and Mexico, but since
9/11 he no longer feels like a stranger in New York, he has a
sense of belonging.
"The way people came together after September 11 was
really moving and beautiful, the sense of community in people helping each other and finding a way of dealing with the
grief. I remember going to a couple of vigils. It wasn't organized that we'd have a vigil at 12 o'clock. It was just going on
everywhere at the same time.
"There were huge posters that people put up of missing
people. There were candles everywhere. People would congregate at parks and on street corners," Arad says.
"I live downtown in the East Village. In the week after
the attack, it was cut off from all traffic. It was very quiet and
people were walking about. There was no traffic at all and
the smoke was still there. It was an incredible experience."
When the memorial competition was announced, Arad
revisited his Hudson River design model, which he had to
change significantly because the memorial would be built on
the World Trade Center site, bounded by West, Greenwich,
Fulton and Liberty streets.
Master planner Daniel Libeskind had proposed a memorial site be developed below the plaza level.
"I felt that the master plan that he had suggested would
be problematic for the site because it depressed the whole site
and severed it from the city," Arad says. The design Arad
presented was a street-level plaza that "would stitch it back
into the neighborhood in a way that allowed it to be a continued part of the city."
Arad was working for the New York City Housing
Authority when he submitted his design in June 2003. His
wife gave birth to their first son, Nathaniel, in August, and in
November, he learned that he was one of eight finalists for
the memorial design.
The jury encouraged Arad to work with a landscape
architect to enhance the plaza and he chose Californian Peter
Walker.
The 13-member memorial jury of architects, artists and
government officials proclaimed Arad's design the winner on
Jan. 6. Maya Lin, who designed the Vietnam Veterans
Memorial, was on the jury. Arad's design brought the site up
to street level and carved the footprints of the twin towers in
two 30-foot-deep sunken reflecting pools, an emphasis
intended to make the absence present â&#x20AC;&#x201D; an unforgettable
void.
Arad says he considers the victims' families the most
important constituency. He met with them the day before he
publicly presented his revised design on Jan. 14. The redesign
features bands of stone paving and irregular trees surrounding the two sunken pools.

Awad Architectural Models

Eloquent Void Allows
Absence to Speak
An excerpt from the Jan. 13 statement of the World Trade
Center Memorial Jury for the winning design.

W

e have taken the time we needed to make our final
choice from among the 5,201 submissions from 63
different countries. Of all the designs submitted, we have
found that "Reflecting Absence" by Michael Arad, in concert with landscape architect Peter Walker, fulfills most
eloquently the daunting — but absolutely necessary —
demands of this memorial.
In its powerful, yet simple articulation of the footprints of the twin towers, "Reflecting Absence" has made
the voids left by the destruction the primary symbols of
our loss. By allowing absence to speak for itself, the
designers have made the power of these empty footprints
the memorial. At its core, this memorial is anchored
deeply in the actual events it commemorates — connecting us to the towers' destruction, and more important, to
all the lives lost on that day.
In our descent to the level below the street, down into
the outlines left by the lost towers, we find that absence is
made palpable in the sight and sound of thin sheets of
water falling into reflecting pools, each with a further void
at its center. We view the sky, now sharply outlined by the
perimeter of the voids, through this veil of falling water.
At bedrock of the north tower's footprint, loved ones will
be able to mourn privately, in a chamber with a large stone
vessel containing unidentified remains of victims that will

The view from the top of the plaza will look down and
water will fall down and flow into the void. A memorial
gallery will be underground and contain the names of the
victims of the attack to be inscribed and listed randomly.
Rescue workers and firefighters will be identified by insignia.
Visitors will stand behind a wall of falling water and the
gallery will convey a sense of intimacy as well as that of a
shelter.
Building the memorial is "an enormous burden of
responsibility," Arad says. "So many people have high and
different expectations for what this memorial will do and can
do. Trying to maintain the integrity of the design as I imagined it is going to take a tremendous effort."
Arad says he has called on Allen, his former architecture
professor, for ideas and suggestions.
"It's unlike any other experience," Allen says of the
memorial. "It's difficult because you don't have a single
client — you have multiple clients and multiple vested interests. You can take any memorial anywhere on any town
square in any city of the United States and multiply it times a
thousand. And that's what he's going through.
"You're often times trying to satisfy different constituen-

rest at the base of the void, directly beneath an opening to
the sky above.
While the footprints remain empty, however, the surrounding plaza's design has evolved to include beautiful
groves of trees, traditional affirmations of life and rebirth.
These trees, like memory itself, demand the care and nurturing of those who visit and tend them. They remember
life with living forms, and serve as living representations
of the destruction and renewal of life in their own annual
cycles.
The result is a memorial that expresses both the incalculable loss of life and its consoling regeneration. Not only
does this memorial creatively address its mandate to preserve the footprints, recognize individual victims, and provide access to bedrock, it also seamlessly reconnects this
site to the fabric of its urban community.

cies who are working at odds against one another. It's a hard
thing to do," Allen says.
Arad received a bachelor's degree in government from
Dartmouth College, before earning his graduate degree at
Tech.
"Tech is where I received my architectural education and
the skills that I have developed here are the ones that are still
helping me," Arad says.
When he learned he was one of the eight nominees,
Arad says he was given two months to prepare material for
the jury presentation.
"Originally, I presented only one board. When I presented to the jury for the second round, there were five boards
and two models. Tn a way it was like an intense studio. Like
any studio sort of exercise, you have a deadline and you try
to get everything you can done in as frugal an amount of
time as possible." Arad quips, "The lack of sleep I got here
paved the way."
He is modest about the celebrity status gained from winning the commission to build the memorial and the task
ahead.
"It's still architecture," he says. GT
Spring 2004 • GEORGIA TECH 23

atom
nanotechnology is changing the world
By Gary Goettling
anotechnology offers scientists
access to a surreal mini-universe where reality and imagination are intertwined, and virtually anything seems possible.
Nano, from the Greek for dwarf, means
one-billionth. A human hair, for example,
measures 50,000 nanometers in diameter; a
strand of DNA is about two nanometers wide.
Hence, nanotechnology â&#x20AC;&#x201D; under 100 nanometers is the accepted threshold â&#x20AC;&#x201D; involves the
engineering of materials and substances at
their molecular or atomic levels.

2 4 GEORGIA TECH â&#x20AC;˘ Spring 2004

Z.L Wang, director of Georgia Tech's Center for
Nanoscience and Nanotechnology and a professor
of materials science, holds precursor materials for
nanometer-scale structures known as nanobelts.
Wang says the future of nanotechnology is the
"new industrial revolution."

= may work as a semiconductor or
Q sensor at the nanometer level.
| Another example: Platinum melts
at 1,772 degrees Celsius, but on
the nano level its melting point
drops to about 600 degrees
Celsius.
Techniques for working at
this unimaginably tiny scale
enable scientists to improve a particular material by altering its
atomic structure — moving individual atoms around like Lego
blocks to create completely new
structures with beneficial new
qualities. The power of nanotechnology is that the finished, fullscale product retains the characteristics engineered at the nano
level.

Georgia Tech is the only institution in the Southeast with advanced clean room facilities needed for experiments in nanotechnology, microelectronics, medicine and other fields. Tech's new
Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Center, a 160,000-square-foot facility funded by a donor's
$36 million gift and $45 million pledge from the state, will quadruple the Institute's clean room
capacity and be available for other academic institutions and private industry.

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anotechnology could affect virtually every
manufactured product, energy production
and a host of medical applications ranging
from diagnostics to tissue and bone replacements, according to Zhong Lin Wang, a
Georgia Tech professor of materials science and adjunct professor of chemistry. He also heads Tech's Center for
Nanoscience and Nanotechnology and its Electron
Microscopy Center.
"The most important and strongest drive for nanotechnology comes from microsystem-based industry," says Wang,
who holds a half dozen nanotechnology-related patents.
"When silicon technology reaches its limit in feature size in
about five years, there will be a desperate need for nanotechnology to keep up the technological momentum laid down
by microelectronics and optoelectronics."
The ability to construct objects on a nanoscale is expected to lead to the development of tiny but fully functional
machines — even sophisticated computers smaller than a
human cell.
But nanotechnology is more than simply the next frontier in miniaturization. The properties of materials change
dramatically the farther one moves down the nanoscale,
revealing an entirely new mini-universe of qualitative
changes. For instance, a material that conducts electricity
26 GEORGIA TECH • Spring 2004

"Phenomena at the nanometer scale are likely to be a completely new world," Wang says.
"Properties of matter at the
nanoscale may not be predictable
from those observed at larger
scales. Important changes in
behavior arc caused not only by
continuous modification of characteristics with diminishing size,
but also by the emergence of totally new phenomena."

The possibilities of nanotechnology have been discussed for many years. In 1959, physicist Richard Feynman speculated, "What would happen if we
could arrange atoms one by one the way we want them?"
The shift from theory to practical application depended
upon the development of an array of microscopy techniques
that allow researchers to see at the nanoscale — and even
beyond, says Wang.
"You can use the tip of an atomic-force microscope to
put the proper atom where you want it," he cites as an example. "Techniques such as this provide us with eyes and hands
to manipulate nanoscale objects, which we could not do 20
years ago."
The capability of Tech's Nanoscience and
Nanotechnology Center will increase substantially in the
months ahead, thanks to a $36 million windfall from a private donor announced this past October.
"We will have a new facility for nanotechnology and
state-of-the-art equipment," says Wang. "This will boost our
effort to a new stage."
The state is expected to contribute an additional $45 million toward construction of the 160,000-square-foot nanotech
home, the largest in the Southeast. The new building will
quadruple Georgia Tech's clean room capacity and be available for use by other academic institutions as well as private
industry.

Only three
years old, the nanotech center involves
about 70 faculty and is
involved in organizing conferences and workshops and
interacting with private industry
and university peers. Its education activities include creation of graduate and undergraduate courses in nanotechnology leading to a certificate in the field. On the research side, the center helps faculty
teams prepare proposals to secure multimillion dollar grants.
Wang is convinced that Tech will soon be recognized
among the top tier of nanotech research universities in the
country. "Georgia Tech's engineering programs are among
the strongest in the country. The university is engineeringoriented with a lot of infrastructure already in place which
makes it possible to conduct nanotechnology research. More
important, over the past few years Georgia Tech has hired a
lot of outstanding people in this area."
Nanotech-related research at Tech is multidisciplinary
and cuts across many schools and colleges. Areas of focus
include bioelectronics, microelectromechanical systems, sensors, nanophotonics, bioelectronics, molecular diagnostics
and drug delivery.
In his lab, Wang has developed "oxide nanobelt" structures with potential applications in sensors and transducers.
The semiconducting, structurally uniform, single-crystalline
nanobelts could be useful for in-situ, real-time and remote
detection of molecules, cancer cells or proteins. The nanobelts
may also be applied in the fabrication of nanoscale electronic
and optoelectronic devices.
Other attention-grabbing research includes the develop-

Georgia Tech researcher Robert Dickson, pictured above with
doctoral student Tae-Hee Lee, has developed a new type of
nanometer-scale optoelectronic device that performs addition
and other complex logic operations.

ment of nanometer-scale optoelectronic devices that perform
complex logic operations that could provide the foundation
for development of molecular-scale computing. This technology, developed by Robert Dickson at the School in Chemistry
and Biochemistry, is based on the utilization of individual
electroluminescent silver nanoclusters. Instead of electrical
current, the device's output will be light.
Professors James Gole and Andrei Fedorov from the
schools of physics and mechanical engineering, respectively,
have developed a novel photocatalytic microreactor for use in
water disinfection processes. The researchers utilize a porous
silicon nanostructure with micron-size pores and clusters of
silica or titania nanospheres up to 30 nanometers in diameter,
alone or impregnated with a noble metal. Preliminary results
indicate performance superior to that of conventional bulk
catalysts.
In health care, nanotechnology may hold the key to early
detection, clinical diagnosis and treatment of a number of
diseases, particularly cancer.

'You can use the tip of an atomic-force microscope to put the proper atom
where you want it.Techniques such as this provide us with eyes and hands
to manipulate nanoscale objects." â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Z.L.Wang
Spring 2004 â&#x20AC;˘ GEORGIA TECH 27

Quantum dots, nanometer-sized semiconductors, embedded
in microbeads give each bead a unique optical signature.
Biomolecules with highly luminescent quantum dots have
unique optical properties, creating a superior substitute for
organic dyes. The beads attach to the molecule they have
been encoded to identify and may hold the key to the early
detection of cancer and other diseases.

28 GEORGIA TECH â&#x20AC;˘ Spring 2004

"Biomedical nanotechnology is leading to major
advances in molecular diagnostics, therapeutics, molecular biology and bioengineering," says Shuming Nie,
a professor in the joint Georgia Tech-Emory
k
University School of Biomedical Engineering and
director of Cancer Nanotechnology at Emory's
Winship Cancer Institute.
Nie, a bioanalytical and biomaterials
chemist by training, has developed a novel
V technology to aid his cancer-fighting
research. The technique employs micronsized polystyrene beads packed with zinc
sulfide-capped cadmium selenide
i nanocrystals or "quantum dots." The
semiconductor dots are fluorescent and
can be synthesized in different colors
merely by changing their size, according
to Nie.
Varying the number and size of the
quantum dots embedded in each
microbead gives the bead a unique optical
signature. In addition, these microstructures can quickly identify and analyze a
particular compound in a complex mixture
â&#x20AC;&#x201D; in effect, serving as a tiny chemical laboratory.
When biological macromolecules such as
antibodies are joined to the beads and injected
into tissue, the beads attach to the molecule they
have been encoded to detect. A color image of the
sample displays clusters of different color dots, each
corresponding to a particular gene or protein.
Cancer cells have certain characteristics or markers.
After targeting and labeling these markers with colorcoded quantum dots, Nie's computer converts the optical
information into biological data. He then knows which markers are and are not present as well as their distribution over
the surface of a cell. He also knows when enough markers
converge to indicate cancer.
The technique allows simultaneous analysis of the markers in clinical tissue specimens and also detects the tiniest
molecular abnormalities â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a tremendous step forward for
early cancer detection. Further, nanoprobes using quantum
dots that are chemically bound to particular genes and proteins can monitor the effectiveness of drug therapy, or precisely deliver controlled amounts of drugs into tumor cells.
Besides cancer, Nie says medical applications for
nanoparticles focus on cardiovascular disease and neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer's.
"I see great potential in using nanotechnology for cell
and tissue engineering," he adds. "Georgia Tech is very
strong in tissue engineering, so it's only logical that we bring
these research areas together."
Worldwide, considerable nanotech research is aimed at
improving the performance of everyday consumer goods
ranging from automobile tires to cosmetics to paint.
A few nanotech products are already in the marketplace,
notably garments that shed liquids effortlessly. Unlike tradi-

tional stain resistance, which is
applied to the fabric and eventually
washes out, the new nanoengineered
material has stain-fighting polymers
bonded within the molecular structure
of the garment itself. Stain resistance
then becomes as much an integral
property of the fabric as its feel or texture.
Further development could lead
to body armor with the lighter weight
and feel of a sweatshirt or "smart"
clothing that becomes waterproof
when touched by rain and responds to
temperature changes by becoming
more porous in hot weather and
denser in the cold.
Some nanotech development
efforts appear to come straight out of
science fiction, such as a computer
memory device that uses the positions
of individual atoms to represent bits
of data.
"Assemblers" could be the ultiShuminq Nie works with micron-sized polystyrene beads packed with quantum dots.
mate nanotech devices. At present,
building nanoengineered structures on
a large scale is excruciatingly slow even with processes such
launched in Atlanta, organized by the law firm of Arnall
as molecular beam epitaxy, which may be described as spray
Golden Gregory LLP, which includes an intellectual-property
painting with atoms. Assemblers would draw materials from
practice for nanotech developments; the Georgia Tech
their surroundings and create duplicates of themselves or,
Research Corp.; the accounting firm of Deloitte & Touche;
working in concert, fabricate whatever material or structure
and the Office of Science and Technology of the Georgia
they're designed to produce. Living cells are examples of
Department of Industry, Trade and Tourism, the alliance's ininature's "assemblers."
tial activities center on education and communication.
Nanoengineered composite materials stronger and
"We want to raise the profile of nanotechnology among
lighter than steel could open up tremendous possibilities in
the different constituent groups and get them talking to one
manufacturing. The best known of this new generation of
another about it," says Jeff Stewart, president of the alliance
materials are carbon nanotubes — ultrasmall sheets of carbon and chair of Arnall Golden's nanotechnology practice. He
atoms arranged in a hexagonal pattern. The sheets are
identifies the constituencies as universities, laboratories,
wrapped into tube-shaped strings with diameters ranging
emerging companies, large corporations with nanotech initiafrom four-tenths of a nanometer to 100 nanometers. Carbon
tives, public and private sources of financing, state and federnanotubes can be stronger than diamonds, yet twisted, flatal programs, and economic and legal advisers.
tened and bent into circles without breaking. Nanotubes are
"There are pockets of activity going on, but there's not a
superb conductors of electricity and heat and can act as semi- lot of communication among them. If we can raise the profile
conductors.
of nanotechnology and educate the people in Georgia about
what it can mean to our state economically, I think we'll see
The bad news, at least for now, is that the material is far
increased activity, yield and investment in that area," he says.
too expensive — several hundred dollars a gram — to find
widespread application. But that will certainly change with
One Atlanta firm, nGimat Co., manufactures a variety of
time and further research.
nanoengineered materials, including thin-film coatings and
powders for industrial applications and components for senNanotechnology's far-reaching and lucrative potential
sors and wireless devices. The properties of a material actualfor product development and the improvement of existing
ly change within the nanoscale realm — often quite dramatiproducts has prompted Georgia to seek a leadership position
cally and usefully, according to CEO and founder Andrew
in the emerging nanotech space.
Hunt, PhD Cere 93.
This past fall the Georgia Nanotechnology Alliance was

"I see great potential in using nanotechnology for cell and tissue engineering. Georgia Tech is very strong in tissue engineering, so it's only logical
that we bring these research areas together."— Shuming Nie
Spring2004 'GEORGIATECH 2 9

Atlanta's nGimat Co. founder and CEO Andrew Hunt holds numerous patents in the field of nanotechnology. Hunt says the properties of
a material often change dramatically and usefully within the nanoscale realm.

"When you get below 50 nanometers the properties
begin to have measurable change," Hunt says. "We see a lot
of applications where you get the real benefit at sub-20
nanometers."
How those changing properties provide opportunities
for product improvement may be seen in the fuel cell catalysts produced by nGimat. Typically, catalysts rely on platinum group metals for operational efficiency, but Hunt's
nanoengineered product is inherently more effective.
"You can use alternatives to, say, platinum, so you can
use much less expensive materials. One must have a practical
way to make the nanomaterials or else you do not get the
cost benefit."
In addition, nanoengineered materials could eliminate
the trade-off between efficiency and operating temperature
â&#x20AC;&#x201D; one of the main obstacles to widespread commercialization of solid oxide fuel cells.
Hunt founded the company 10 years ago as
MicroCoating Technologies to engage in nanotech research
and development. He holds numerous patents in the field,
including additional trade secrets to the Nanomiser unit and
NanoSpray process, which produce nanostructures as both
thin films and nanopowders. The company name was
changed in March to reflect its nanotech focus â&#x20AC;&#x201D; 90 percent
of its products are nano-sized material or thicknesses.
One of nGimat's most recent innovations is a pigment
for use in printer ink nanoengineered with transparent inor30 GEORGIA TECH â&#x20AC;˘ Spring 2004

ganic molecules that impart a rock-like stability that will
never fade.
"We've demonstrated the brightly colored stable nanomaterials and are working with two or three companies that
are very interested in bringing that to large-scale applications," Hunt says. "Another hot area is for metal nanoparticles in various media to enable printable conductive lines of
smaller size and also for lead-free, low-temperature-based
solder."
Hunt points out that nGimat also works with a number
of companies as well as Georgia Tech researchers to identify
and develop nanoengineered solutions for new business
needs.
Companies such as nGimat are relatively few; the commercialization of nanotech products is still dependent upon
research at corporate and university labs.
Intellectual property created at Georgia Tech is administered by the Georgia Tech Research Corp., where enthusiasm
for nanotechnology runs high.
"Nanotechnology is so broad right now, it touches just
about all areas of research," says Rosibel Ochoa, assistant
director of the Office of Technology Licensing. "A lot of people are very interested in this field."
When Georgia Tech's new nanotechnology facility is
built, Ochoa expects to see a marked increase in commercial
possibilities from the field.
Among the more than 20 inventions in nanotechnology

developed by Georgia Tech researchers over
the past two years, Ochoa's office has
assembled several portfolios of intellectual property reflecting inventions that
could help nanotechnology realize its
potential in areas such as composites, catalysts and gas sensors for
the detection of chemical and biological substances.
In catalysis, for example,
nanoparticles are relatively
well-established, so further
J
scientific advances in that
area are likely to reach commercialization sooner than
innovations in some of the
more esoteric applications,
Ochoa points out.
One reason, she
explains, is that the technology is still quite new. Plus,
many of the tools for handling, producing and manipulating nanoengineered
materials are themselves still
in the development phase.
"You have to start from
scratch and make the different
kinds of tools that are required,
Ochoa says.
Predicting the impact of new
technology is always risky business.
Yet there seems little doubt that the
very nature of nanotechnology will precipitate important changes â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the only
question is its timetable.
The nanotech future was described in a
March 2000 National Science Foundation report:
"Nanotechnology will fundamentally transform science, technology and society. In 10 to 20 years, a significant proportion of industrial production, health care
practice and environmental management will be changed by
the new technology. Economic growth, personal opportunities, sustainable development and environmental preservation will be affected."
Wang is a little less restrained in his assessment of nanotechnology's future, which he calls a "new industrial revolution."
"Nanotechnology will fundamentally restructure the
technologies currently used for manufacturing, medicine,
defense, energy production, environmental management,
transportation, communication, computation and education,"
he says, GT

Nanorings, complete circles formed by a spontaneous
self-coiling process, could serve as nanometer-scale
sensors, resonators and transducers. They could also
be used for studying piezoelectric effects and other
phenomena at the small scale.

"If we can raise the profile of nanotechnology and educate the people in
Georgia about what it can mean to our state economically, I think we'll see
increased activity, yield and investment in that area." â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Jeff Stewart
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By Kimberly Link-Wills

D

ennis Kelly calls out to zoo workers and questions preschoolers about their favorite animals as
he makes his way around the Grant Park
grounds rattling off the names of endangered species, dates
of monkey births and the numbers of animals in each exhibit.
"For a 115-year-old zoo, we still feel like we're pretty
young. We've got great plans for the next 10 years to rebuild
the zoo again. We're going to increase the emphasis on small
mammals. We're also going to focus on Georgia and the
Southeast," says Kelly, ME 76, the Zoo Atlanta president and
CEO. "We're going to go from 200 species to 300 over a 10year period. About 20 percent of our species are endangered.
Half of the 20 percent we're actually breeding for their survival as part of a worldwide protection plan.
"We have one of the best reptile collections in the world.
We obviously have one of the best gorilla and orangutan collections. The African drill monkey is a great success of ours.
We are the only zoo in America that is successfully breeding
the drill, which is probably the most endangered primate in
the world at the moment," says Kelly.
On Nov. 30, the zoo welcomed a male Bornean orangutan, the second orangutan birth in less than a year and a
half, bringing the zoo's population to 12, the largest in North
America.

Kelly points out the reptile house, a structure built in the
1960s that has been updated once and is scheduled for another refurbishment within the next five years.
"We've got some really rare species in there. We're
breeding a Guatemalan beaded lizard. There are between 15
and 20 left on the planet and we have responsibility for six of
them. If we and the San Diego Zoo don't breed them, they're
going to go extinct," he says.
Kelly gets his hands on Blue, a 15-year-old indigo snake
that weighs more than 6 pounds. He holds up the snake as a
grandmother videotapes and her grandchild gawks. He tells
the child that the snake can be found in the wild right here in
Georgia. The child, about 2, doesn't seem thrilled with the
information.
"We have one male and two female indigo snakes, which
are indigenous to Georgia," Kelly says. "We're working with
the Department of Natural Resources to try and bring that
snake back. It's on the verge of being an endangered species
and is just a gorgeous snake."
Kelly has not found his small audience appreciative of
the snake and moves on to the children's zoo, which is currently being revamped. When the new and improved Orkin
Children's Zoo debuts May 1, it will offer an up-close look at
five red kangaroos shipped in from Kansas City. The kangaroos will not be for petting, but zoo visitors will be able to get
within about four feet of the marsupials.
One of Kelly's favorite spots in the zoo overlooks the
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gorilla habitat. He notes that many of the 23 gorillas — a colof the highest in the country. The cost of admission has risen
lection only second in size to the Bronx Zoo — are either
steadily over the last decade to $16.50 for adults and $11.50
young or old.
for children. In comparison, admission is free at the National
Zoo in Washington, D.C., and at Lincoln Park Zoo in
"We expect we'll see several of our gorillas pass away
Chicago. The San Diego Zoo, which has 800 species on 100
over the next four or five years," Kelly says, adding that Zoo
acres, charges $19.50 for adults and $11.75 for kids.
Atlanta's care of the gorillas has enabled them to live to a
ripe old age, like Willie B., who died at age 41.
"I'm trying to figure out ways that we can be a zoo for
all Atlantans," says Kelly, who launched an online coupon
"Willie B. was unique, but Ivan is pretty special too. He
was rescued from a shopping
offering $5 off admission last
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center in Tacoma, Washington.
summer.
He has been with this family for
The Atlanta Business
a long time. He's one of our oldChronicle reported that zoo
est silverbacks," he says.
attendance in fiscal year 2002
was 695,373, down from 1 milLike Willie B., Ivan lived in
lion in 2001 and 1.2 million in
solitary confinement for 27
2000, when visitors flocked to
years. Ivan, now pushing 40,
Grant Park to see the new panarrived in Atlanta in 1994.
das.
Kelly is excited about
Caesar, a 500-pound gorilla
"All city-owned zoos other
delivered from the Los Angeles
than Zoo Atlanta are generally
Zoo via FedEx Express. Caesar
funded by the public. Zoo
has just come out of a six-month
Atlanta gets no support from
quarantine to protect against the
any government and has not
transmission of hepatitis B.
for over 13 years. We do struggle with the gap between what
"Caesar was born at the
we charge and what it takes to
Los Angeles Zoo, the first gorilrun a great zoo. But we can do
la in history, we believe, to be
a great job because of the supborn by Caesarian section,"
port of great companies and
Kelly says. "We're hoping he
great individuals," Kelly says.
takes over Willie B.'s family.
Zoo Atlanta is calling the
Caesar is 27 years old, the prime
annual Beastly Feast, this year
age for a gorilla. He has not
set for May 15, the "South's
bred before. Part of it was he
most successful black tie gala,"
was a little overweight. He actuwith a goal of topping the $1
ally couldn't perform. But he's
million fund-raising mark for
lost about 100 pounds and we
the seventh consecutive year.
hope he's ready to be a father."
"I'm real anxious to put
Ask a silly question about a
more money and effort into
gorilla diet and Kelly fires back
conservation and research
with a good-humored answer.
that's making a difference right
"You wanna go on the gorilla
here in the southeast United
diet? Here's the gorilla diet:
States while continuing our
First, it's all fruits and vegetaefforts in places like China and
bles. Second, they make you
One of Zoo Atlanta's most popular exhibits is the $4.5 milAfrica," Kelly says.
take off all your clothes and live
lion Ford African Rain Forest, a naturalistic habitat that is
in a glass-walled room for six
He does not see the aquarihome to 23 gorillas, a collection second in size only to the
months and they throw your
Bronx Zoo. Five red kangaroos from Kansas City are the
um currently under construcfood on the floor. You will lose a latest arrivals at the 115-year-old zoo.
tion in Atlanta as competition.
lot of weight."
"I think the Georgia Aquarium is going to be a great,
great thing for Atlanta. We see the aquarium as an opportuniKelly moves the conversation back on track and shows
ty to collaborate on a whole range of issues. We both have the
off a new clinic for gorillas and orangutans that looks much
same mission elements: education, conservation and a great,
like a hospital emergency room.
"Some of the best success in breeding gorillas in captivi- fun family experience," Kelly says.
ty has taken place at Zoo Atlanta. If anybody can do it, we
"Both of us have the vision that if we do our jobs well,
can."
species and their environments will be protected for future
Kelly does worry about Zoo Atlanta's ticket prices, some generations."

34 GEORGIA TECH • Spring 2004

Worst to First

It was Maple who freed Willie B. from his cell in 1988 to
live out his life in a $4.5 million naturalistic habitat with his
own kind. After living alone for 27 years, Willie B. adapted
Pandas propel Zoo Atlanta to research forefront
and thrived, siring seven offspring — five of which remain at
Zoo Atlanta — before his death in February 2000 at age 41.
It was Maple who negotiated an agreement with the
oo Atlanta owes its start to a bankrupt circus and a
generous Atlanta businessman. On March 28,1889, Chinese government that brought Zoo Atlanta's current most
Caroline Joe famous occupants — the panlumber dealer George
das Lun Lun and Yang Yang
V. Gress and railroad contractor
— to their new home on Nov.
Thomas J. James bought the trav5,1999.
eling circus at an auction at the
Fulton County Courthouse for
Officially, the giant pan$4,485.
das are on loan for 10 years.
The zoo hopes the relationship
James wanted the circus
will last much longer. In
wagons and railroad cars for his
exchange for the pandas, Zoo
business. Gress offered the aniAtlanta is giving the People's
mals — which the Grant Park
Republic of China $1 million
Conservancy says included a
annually for scientific study
hyena, four lions, a black bear, a
and conservation efforts. Only
jaguar, an elk, a Mexican hog,
about 1,000 pandas remain in
two deer, a gazelle, a camel, two
the wild as man has
monkeys and two serpents — to
encroached upon China's
the city of Atlanta. Gress also
bamboo forests.
shelled out the money for construction of a brick building to
Maple often said his goal
house the animals in Grant Park.
was to make Zoo Atlanta "the
world's first truly scientific
Gress' generosity to the city
zoo" and called the $7 million
would continue. In 1893, he and
panda enclosure with its 16
Charles Northern bought the
video cameras monitoring
Cyclorama's "Battle of Atlanta"
every move an instrument of
painting. While the Cyclorama
education.
has always captivated visitors,
Zoo Atlanta hasn't always been
Maple has since returned
the greatest show on Earth.
to Tech to direct the new
Although one of the oldest in the
Center for Conservation and
country, the zoo was not one of
Behavior. But the pandas have
the most beloved. In fact, by the
remained in the spotlight —
1970s, Zoo Atlanta was ranked as
and not just because they are
one of the worst in the nation. Its
photogenic and only three
silverback gorilla, Willie B., lanother zoos in the nation have
guished in a cage, perhaps drivthem. Zoo Atlanta and its panen mad by boredom with only a
das are at the forefront of scitire swing and a television for
entific research.
Tech alumni behind the scenes at the zoo include, top
entertainment.
Watching over Lun Lun
photo, multimedia assistant Adam Thompson, STC 02;
membership coordinator Kelli Sherrill, Mgt 00, above left;
and Yang Yang is Rebecca
The zoo's turnaround is by
and Web graphics designer Rebecca Scheel, ID 02.
Snyder, MS Psych 96, PhD 00,
now a story familiar to the Tech
one of the world's foremost authorities on panda behavior.
community, for it was a psychology professor named Terry
She has studied Lun Lun, the female born on Aug. 25,1997,
Maple who, during his 17-year reign as CEO and president,
and Yang Yang almost from birth.
built its reputation as a world-class institution and leading
facility on naturalistic enclosures and animal research.
Snyder was the first Georgia Tech graduate student to go

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Maple often said his goal was to malce Zoo Atlanta "the world's first truly
scientific zoo." Zoo Atlanta and its pandas are at the forefront o f research.
Spring 2004 'GEORGIA TECH 35

to China to study pandas, according to
Maple, who has called her the pioneer
who broke the ground and laid the
foundation.
"Rebecca is at the forefront of
panda science. She really established a
presence in China for us. I call it 'intellectual capital' that Georgia Tech helped
to develop and the zoo now has within
it to continue," Maple says.
Snyder says she enrolled at Tech
specifically for the opportunity to work
with Maple and because of the
Institute's close ties with Zoo Atlanta.
She was in Chengdu, where the
zoo now maintains an apartment, when

36 GEORGIA TECH • Spring 2004

Yang Yang, the male, was born on Sept.
9,1997. Yang Yang was his mother's
first cub and Snyder watched as the
baby began vocalizing and his mother,
Ya Ya, looked at him in a surprised way.
Then Ya Ya smelled him, picked him up
and began cradling him.
Of the money sent to China thus
far, $400,000 went toward construction
of a panda nursery. A price tag can't be
put on the scientific contributions Zoo
Atlanta has made.
"We contributed to the design and
provided ideas for enrichment items in
the nursery, climbing structures for
example, and we made it easier for

males and females to communicate
with each other. The nursery is where
the research base staff conducts the
breeding introductions in the spring,"
says Snyder, now the curator of giant
panda research and management at
Zoo Atlanta.
Research at Zoo Atlanta and in
China has included reproductive
behavior, maternal behavior, developmental behavior, positive reinforcement
training, cognition and enclosure
design and use. Several pandas at the
Chengdu Research Base have been kept
together with their mothers for more
than a year, which comes closer to the

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time they'd spend together in the wild,
rather than the six months they traditionally have been given in captivity to
increase captive birth rates.
Chinese scientists have also turned
to baby swapping. Pandas give birth to
twins more than 50 percent of the time,
but the mothers usually reject one cub.
Tn the Chengdu nursery, one cub is put
with the mother. After nursing and nurturing, the cub is switched for its twin.
The mother rears two offspring while
only caring for one at a time.
"We have made some interesting

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discoveries about the relationship
between giant panda mothers and cubs.
It is a unique relationship because a cub
typically grows up with its mother as
its only social companion. Mothers
make a big investment in their cubs and
captive pandas spend a significant
amount of time playing with their
cubs," Snyder says.
"We have found that when a cub
has both its mother and a sibling as
play partners, the cub will spend more
time playing with its mother. In other
carnivores, young animals mainly play
with their siblings.
"We have also found that young
males spend more time play fighting
and engage in rougher play than young
females. This might prepare males for
competition for mates in adulthood,"
she says.
Dennis Kelly, ME 76, who succeeded Maple as zoo president and CEO,
says the Chinese are interested in maintaining a strong relationship with Zoo
Atlanta because of Snyder's work
"Dr. Snyder is probably the leading
expert on panda behavior, particularly
maternal behavior, in the world," Kelly
says.
Snyder does believe Lun Lun and
Yang Yang recognize her. "But I am not
a very important figure in their lives
because I rarely feed them and I don't
train them. They have a much closer
bond with the keepers," she says. "All
of our interactions with the pandas are
through a barrier."
Snyder hopes to remain involved
in panda research for the duration of
her career.
"My hope is that people appreciate
and respect the giant panda as one of
millions of fascinating, beautiful and
irreplaceable living beings that share
this planet," Snyder says. "I care deeply
about their future and want to encourage others to care about it too."
At Zoo Atlanta in early March,
Snyder was carefully monitoring Lun
Lun for signs of breeding behaviors.
There are huge hopes that she can

deliver a tiny bundle of joy — the size
of a stick of butter — late this summer.
The giant panda keepers at Zoo
Atlanta have been training Lun Lun to
undergo ultrasound testing. But
because a panda fetus is so very small,
it won't be visible even by ultrasound
until just a few weeks before birth.
Lun Lun was expected to be fertile
for only a couple of days in late March.
But no one will know if she's actually
expecting until summer. All female
pandas that are reproductively mature
show signs of pregnancy.
"Some females that experience
what we call pseudo pregnancy, a false
pregnancy, will actually show nesting
behavior and the same hormonal
changes as a pregnant female," Snyder
says.
Kelly and Snyder had hoped a
pregnancy would be achieved the oldfashioned way. But Lun Lun was artificially inseminated after Yang Yang
failed to pick up the mating signals.
The zoo staff had already prepared to
try to collect semen from Yang Yang or
obtain it from the San Diego Zoo.
Maple says a panda birth in
Atlanta would be "huge" for the zoo.
"Number One, it just peaks interest. The more people who are interested
and visiting the stronger the zoo will be
financially and the more it will be able
to do in the area of conservation,"
Maple says.
"At the same time, it also focuses
attention on the scientific work that
we're doing with the pandas. The
whole purpose of our program is to better understand the way pandas are
socialized, the way they develop and
that requires babies in order to be able
to study that process.
"We have a lot of baby pandas that
we're following in China, but this pair
in Atlanta will allow everybody to have
a window on this study that we're
engaged in," Maple says. "And I think
it's going to be a lot of fun for the people who support the zoo and for the
zoo staff themselves."

"Mu hope is that people appreciate and respect the giant panda as one of
millions of fascinating, beautiful and irreplaceable living beings."
Spring 2004 'GEORGIA TECH 3 7

Leader o f the Pack
Zoo Atlanta president and CEO Dennis Kelly is a risk taker

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oo Atlanta's leader of the
pack has a head for business.
' Dennis Kelly ME 76, was
hired as president and CEO last summer to continue the momentum initiated by former director Terry Maple.
"Terry had built such a great collection and the animal care staff and the
veterinary staff here are so strong that
he and the board agreed that they
would look for somebody who had
both marketing skills and could continue to build the fund-raising expertise.
Those are demonstrated skills that I
have," Kelly says.
"In my last job, as CEO of a small,
growing company I was raising money
for Green Mountain Energy, which markets environmentally friendly electricity
to consumers. I raised almost $200 million in equity and debt," Kelly says.
"Selling a concept is not new to me. The
approach is the same here. We're selling
something that's important to the community â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and to the planet. We're not
asking for donations, we're asking for
investments. All of our jobs here at Zoo
Atlanta are to be good stewards of
those investments."
In February 2002, Fortune Small
Business magazine profiled Kelly as one
of "The New Risk Takers."
Kelly was credited for taking a
bold step when the "utility-deregulation movement was flickering out." His
plan, the article says, challenged Green
Mountain's "very underpinnings: its
staunch support of deregulation. He
brought forward an idea that had been
kicking around since the company's
founding in 1997 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; utility partnering.
Green Mountain could hook up with
existing utilities and offer their customers the option of a green energy
source."
He joined Green Mountain Energy
in 1999 and steered the company to
become one of the leading marketers of
cleaner electricity, made from wind,
solar, hydro and natural gas. During his
38 GEORGIA TECH â&#x20AC;˘ Spring 2004

tenure, annual sales grew from $60,000
to $250 million and the customer base
grew from 50,000 households in two
states to more than 500,000 in seven
states.
Kelly had moved Green Mountain
headquarters from Vermont to Texas
and was commuting between Atlanta
and Austin when he was contacted by a
headhunter.
"I thought he had the wrong person," Kelly says. "But he explained that
Dr. Maple and the board were looking
for somebody with a business background, particularly marketing and
fund raising. What attracted me was
the opportunity to get involved in an
Atlanta institution. I was ready to do
something where my skills matched the
needs of the organization. What Terry
and the team he built did to turn the
zoo around is a huge success story.
Building on that legacy was intriguing
to me and a great challenge for me at
this stage of my career."
Maple says he left the zoo in good
hands.
"Dennis has the right mix of business savvy and a clear understanding
of the vision of Zoo Atlanta. You've
really got to know what's possible in
the zoo business and work very hard to
keep our zoo in the leadership role. It's
going to take very skillful leadership to
do that. I think he's got everything that
a leader would need in order to do
that," Maple says.
"He's a winner. He knows how to
lead and he's a quick study. That's one
thing I've noticed about him. He came
in there, never having run a zoo before,
and it didn't take him long to figure out
what to do and how to deal with a lot
of the complicated issues of managing
an institution of this kind.
"Obviously, he had very good scientific training from his time at Georgia
Tech. Then he went on to the world of
business and has been successful. I
think the business and scientific training is a great combination. When I

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heard he was a Georgia Tech graduate,
I knew we were going to be OK,"
Maple says.
Kelly was born in Germany while
his father, a career military man, was
stationed there. The family moved to
Atlanta when he was 3. Kelly served
two years in the Army before enrolling
at Tech.
"What attracted me to Tech was
the success of its graduates. The graduates I knew were confident and happy
in what they did and I felt Tech better
equipped people to be successful at a
very early age," he says. "The education I received at Tech is one of the best
things that I have ever done. More than
anything it taught me to think, taught
me how to do analysis and turn analysis into action."
After graduation, Kelly worked as
an engineer for Procter & Gamble for
four years before heading to Harvard
for an MBA. He worked at The CocaCola Co. in global and strategic marketing from 1982 to 1999.
"Running organizations is both a
science and an art. I've had the good
fortune at places like Coca-Cola and
Green Mountain to run large and small
organizations and making people more
effective is something I really enjoy
doing. Corporations and nonprofits at
the end of the day are all about getting
groups of people focused and motivated, getting them resources and then
removing barriers to success," Kelly
says.
"Whenever I take over a new role, I
always immediately meet with the
existing team. I've learned that it is best
to be brutally honest about what I hope
to accomplish and what my skills are
and what my skills are not and set as

clearly as I can what my hopes and
expectations arc."
Kelly told the Zoo Atlanta staff,
which grows from 150 to 300 during the
peak visitor season and includes another 200 volunteers, that he has three
goals.
"First and foremost is maintaining
the standard of world-class animal care.
Second, I wanted to quickly focus on
marketing the zoo, which we're making
great progress on. The third thing I said
I was going to do was continue the
zoo's move toward financial sustainability. We're making good progress in
that regard, but we're not there yet."
He says his typical day hasn't
changed that much since taking the
helm at Zoo Atlanta.
"In some respects, it's similar to
any executive's â&#x20AC;&#x201D; dealing with finance
and human resources and community
relations and fund raising. The real difference is that when I have a meeting,
it's often in front of a gorilla or a goat
or a monkey. And I get to handle a
snake at lunchtime.
"I'm learning all the time. I think
the great thing about a place like Zoo
Atlanta is everybody here, whether
you've been here a week or 30 years, is
still learning," Kelly says. "I feel I have
tons more to learn. But that's not crucial
to what I have to do. What I have to do
is motivate and hire the best professionals I can, get the resources they need
and get out of the way and let them do
their jobs."
Still, Kelly turned to a family member before accepting Zoo Atlanta's offer.
"I brought my 3-year-old grandson,
Owen, to test the zoo. It passed with
flying colors, both from his perspective
and mine."

"Obviously, be bad very good scientific training
from bis time at Georgia Teck Tben be went on t o
tbe world o f business and bas been successful. I
think tbe business and scientific training is a great
combination. Wben I beard be was a Georgia Tecb
graduate, I knew we were going to be OK,"
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lech's New
Research H U D
Terry Maple moves on to found, direct
Center for Conservation and Behavior

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erry Maple concedes that it was not easy to leave
the zoo he had worked so hard to build. "I had
spent 17 years there and I was a little bit surprised
how difficult it was to make the transition. I do miss it. I miss
being there. I miss working with those wonderful people and
working with people in our community, but I have just taken
on a different role," Maple says.
"I have so many things that I'm working on now that
will benefit the zoo in the scientific arena and the educational
arena and 1 feel like this is the best place for me at this stage
of my career."
That best place is the new Center for Conservation and
Behavior at Georgia Tech. The opportunity to found and
direct the center lured Maple back to campus full time last
year.
"I am trying to find a consistent and sustainable funding
source so that there can be a lot of intellectual power behind
the ideas at the zoo. If you can get substantial endowments
so that you can attract scientists and educators to work with
the zoo on problems that are not day to day but long term,
then you increase the ability of the zoo not to just manage the
animals but to stay ahead of very challenging issues in conservation and management," he says.
"We have a pretty good endowment behind us already.
There's a total of $3 million that has been raised," money
Maple says has come from private sources to support both
the zoo and the Center for Conservation and Behavior. "Most
of that money goes to support training young, bright people
who arc really doing good work."
Former Tech students supported by the center include
Tara Stoinski, PhD 00, the manager of conservation and partnerships for Zoo Atlanta currently in Africa studying mountain gorillas. "She's really brilliant and doing great work. I'm
really proud of what she's doing," Maple says.
"There's a lot going on now, but there's going to be a lot
more going on in the future. There's a very, very close partnership with the zoo, things I've worked my whole career to
develop," he says. "The center is a continuation. You might
call it an upgrade or an enhancement of my life career. I've
always done research with animals around the world and at
the zoo. I had students working with me all the time I was at
the zoo. All we did here was increase the focus."
Maple is increasing the center's focus from the renovated
J.S. Coon Building in the School of Psychology, which donated him office and conference space.
"Right now I'm concentrating on endowments and the
40 GEORGIA TECH â&#x20AC;˘ Spring 2004

Terry Maple heads the new Center for Conservation and Behavior
and says Georgia Tech is going to have a major influence on how
zoos across the country are run.

tools that will allow us to continue to do research. We have a
lot of ambition for this center, but 1 don't want to spread all
the ideas right now. I want to keep some secrets until we
have a chance to fund them. We have some big ideas, but
right now the most important thing is maintaining the
momentum, providing the zoo with the intellectual resources
and the person power," he says, stressing the word person
because the majority of his graduate students are women.
"I've had good luck recruiting brilliant young students.
They've all gone on to wonderful jobs. I call them 'professors
in the zoo.' There are about a dozen people out there in major
positions in zoos around this country who are doing wonderful work and they're all graduates of my program," Maple
says.
"One of the things that Georgia Tech is doing that's very
significant by partnering with the zoo is we're producing talented young professionals who are not only going to help
this zoo, they're going to help all zoos. Georgia Tech is going
to have a major influence on how zoos are run." GT

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acknowledges that split-second decisions and a calm
demeanor have helped him escape some close calls.
He returns to the rapids again and again for those adrenaline splashes. "Going over a 35-foot waterfall is a pretty big
rush."
â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Kimberly Link-Wills
Spring 2004 'GEORGIA TECH 4 3

Joy Between the Traces

A Nice and Easy Riders
Randy Thompson, ID 75, and his wife, Jackie, dressed
head to toe in protective leather and full-face helmets, look
the part of 21st century "Easy Riders" as they rumble down
the highway astride their Harley-Davidson motorcycles.
"When Jackie was pregnant with our daughter 22 years
ago, I had four bikes, but I got rid of them when Heather was
born," Thompson says, "For my 50th birthday, Jackie bought
me this Harley Heritage Softtail. We rode together for a while
and one day I asked her if she wanted to ride behind me or
did she want her own. The next day she picked out a Harley
Low Rider and we've been going ever since."
Although he got out of Georgia Tech with a degree in
industrial design, Thompson says he never had any urge to
go to Detroit to design motor vehicles. Instead, he started
working for his future father-in-law, Walter Boomershine, IM
51, who owned several automobile dealerships in Atlanta.
Nine years ago Thompson bought the Honda dealership in
Cartersville, Ga., and recently opened another in Rockmart,
Ga.
Thompson says the daily stress evaporates as soon as
he cranks the Harley.
"We get out and putter around with friends or go on charity rides," he says. "It really relieves the stress of doing business every day — just to get out in the country and feel the
wind in your face and hear that big motor rumble. Living in
Cartersville, you have country roads in almost every direction.
What is really nice is when Heather, a junior management student at Tech, comes up and goes riding with us. That's cool."
— Neil B. McGahee
4 4 GEORGIA TECH • Spring 2004

Bill Sanders trusts any of his trotters to carry a glass of
water on its back without spilling a drop.
Sanders, MS CP 66, is owner of Sandtopia Valley Farms, a
4,000-acre spread in Stevenson, Ala,, home to his 55 standardbred trotters. He trains about two dozen of them to race with
sulkies behind them for harness racing.
"We breed them for the trot or the pace," says Sanders, a
former football player. "They go almost as fast as thoroughbreds, but what I like about it is the hands-on training. I'm too
large to ride a thoroughbred, but I can train my horses myself. It
is also a much more intricate training to make them go in a level
gait. It's just beautiful to watch and I was entranced by it."
A real estate developer, Sanders and his wife, Laney, own
Trotters Place Inc., an Alabama-based development company.
He spent 24 years in Atlanta development with the Sanbury
Corp., a firm he founded and has since sold. Sanders also
serves on the board of directors of the United States Trotting
Association.
"There are two things that are very addictive and I happen
to be into both of them — real estate development and racing
horses," Sanders says. "I have a very full development schedule, but I spend two full days a week training these horses
myself."
Sanders bought the farm while he was in Atlanta, first for
his late father, Sam Sanders, who became involved in harness
racing in his retirement years.
"I got addicted to it as well," Sanders says.
He has had some success, including Sand Squaw, the
2002 Ohio Horse of the Year, and Sand Vic, 2003 Kentucky
State Champion and fourth-place finisher against some of the
best trotters in the world at The Meadowlands Racetrack in New
Jersey in November.
The thrill he gets from training his horses and following
them around the country to watch them race is age-old,
Sanders says.
"There's no experience like seeing your horse sticking its
head out at the front of the pack going for $100,000," Sanders
says.
— Maria M. Lameiras

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Swatting Stress
It's the computer bugs in the middle of the night that distress Kim Seijo, a systems engineer for Shaw Carpets in
Cartersville, Ga. She de-stresses by swatting volleyballs.
Seijo, TE 93, writes codes and programs to assist the plant
associates on the production floor.
"My codes might assist plant managers by scheduling production orders or reporting the overall production and performance of a plant," she says. "We operate on time lines, so we
don't always have the time needed to test codes or systems. It's
very critical to be able to test up front to avoid bugs in the system. That's my main stress. I want users to be able to test my
codes completely so I don't have to get a call in the middle of
the night that I've shut down their plant."
Seijo finds there's nothing better for stress than going up
and "killing" a volleyball, something she does every Monday
evening in a women's league in Kennesaw, Ga.
"I played volleyball in high school and I wanted to play in
college," she says. "But I was in the co-op program and there
was just no time for that. I did play some at SAC — especially
the weekend tournaments."
Seijo's league plays regulation NCAA volleyball.
"We even have some former college players out there," she
says. "After a long, hard day at the office, it's a great way to
wind down."
- Neil B. McGahee

> Solace on the Fly
When Richard Baker tires of the daily
grind, he heads for the hills — and the
trout streams.
Baker, IM 64, a commercial real
estate broker in Charlotte, N.C., is an avid
fly fisherman,
"Fly-fishing is a spiritual thing for
me," Baker says. "You experience the
tranquility — a closeness to your maker
when you're out there. It's completely
relaxing because you can't do it if you're
thinking about anything else. I tell that to
other people and they don't know what
I'm talking about."
He is as hooked on fly-fishing as the
trout he pursues. "I'm a homemade fisherman. I like to build my own rods and tie
my own flies and play with all the gadgets
almost as much as I like the fishing."
Baker admits that he was a worm
dunker before he saw the light.
"I worked years ago with a guy and
when we would go fishing he always
used a fly rod," he says. "I used a spinner, but he consistently worked less and
caught more fish. I got to thinking about

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that, so I gave it a try and the next thing
you know, I had a fly rod too."
Although Charlotte is a couple of
hours from the nearest trout stream,
Baker isn't deterred.
"I can drive three hours south and

be in some fine trout waters in the
Smokey Mountains. I practice catch and
release. I like to think I can catch them
again, because a trout is too valuable to
be caught only once."
- Neil B. McGahee
Spring 2004 .GEORGIA TECH 4 5

Y Model Engineer

A Barnstormer
A half dozen times a year, Pat Epps climbs into his 1974
single-engine Beechcraft Bonanza and flies stunts in air
shows.
Epps, ME 56, president and owner of Epps Aviation
located at DeKalb-Peachtree Airport in Atlanta, has never
been a spend-your-career-behind-a-desk kind of guy.
In 1980, Epps, accompanied by Atlanta architect and
pilot Richard Taylor, M Arch 64,
flew the Bonanza to the North
Pole, where they "rolled" the
magnetic North Pole
and performed
several acrobatic stunts.
Epps founded the Greenland
Expedition Society to find "The Lost
Squadron" — six P-38 Lightnings and two B17 Flying Fortress bombers that were ditched in
Greenland during an Arctic blizzard in 1942. Although the
crew was rescued, the planes were left on the ice cap.
"I spent seven summers vacationing on the glacier in
Greenland," Epps says of the adventure. He and Taylor led a
team that found the squadron in 1989 and reclaimed one of
the P-38s.
The son of Georgia's first aviator, Ben T. Epps, says his
fascination with flying grew while in the Air Force ROTC at
Georgia Tech. His first job after graduation from Tech was as
a flight test engineer with Boeing, followed by a six-year tour
of duty as a pilot in the Air Force. In 1965, he started Epps
Aviation, which included a flight school that he sold three
years ago.
"I started acrobatic flying in 1975," he says. "I do the
old, classic stuff — loops and rolls."
Epps, 70, laughs that his wife of 47 years, Ann, "still tolerates" his barnstorming exploits, Two of the main air shows
he performs in are the Sun-N-Fun at Lakeland, Fla., and the
OshKosh show at DeKalb-Peachtree Airport. The next show
is scheduled for June 5.
"I plan to do it," he says,
— John Dunn
4 6 GEORGIA TECH • Spring 2004

In 1951 at the age of 4, John B. Carter Jr. received five
Lionel 027 gauge cars — a Christmas present that created a
lifelong fascination with model railroad trains.
"It's a true engineer's toy," says Carter, IE 69, president of
the Georgia Tech Foundation. "When you're dealing with model
trains, something will go wrong. It's either mechanical or electrical. When it breaks, you've got to fix it. You've got maintenance
and you've got fun."
Carter still has the original five model cars and they all
operate.
"I've kept them all these years and I've kept adding to
them," he says of the collection that now numbers about 70
cars.
Carter has also designed an impressive scenic landscape
of track, bridges, trestles and mountains spread across three
sheets of plywood. "It takes a month just to set up," he says.
"When you're working with model trains, there are no
phones and no computers," Carter says. "You revert back to
your childhood memories and you have a good time. It's a
great release,"
— John Dunn

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Once a week, Pete Petit climbs into the cockpit of a
Russian L-39 jet trainer fighter plane and blasts off to where he
can "wring it out." The plane climbs to 16,400 feet in under five
minutes, accelerates to 435 mph and soars to 36,000 feet.
"You don't usually go sightseeing in this plane," says Petit,
ME 62, MS EM 64. "It's really a high-performance jet."
Parker H. Petit is chairman, president and CEO of Matria
Healthcare of Marietta, Ga., and has been flying for 40 years.
After graduating from Georgia Tech, he was a flight instructor for
the U.S. Army and, as an engineer with Lockheed Martin, he
was the flight instructor for the company's flying club.
A half dozen years ago, Petit flew a T-34 aircraft equipped
with laser guns and sensors in a mock combat competition with

other pilots in a game of aerial laser tag. An ace pilot, Petit won
the tournament competition one year.
CNBC television featured Petit and his company in its "Out
of the Box" program that was scheduled to air in March. The television crew took footage of Petit flying his jet.
"To me, flying is a matter of continuously correcting mistakes, because that's all that you're doing when you're flying —
that's an analogy to business. If you're running a business, you'd
better be continually correcting mistakes," Petit says.
"When I fly, I get everything off my mind except my flying.
I'm always doing something when I'm flying in terms of trying to
do a maneuver better. You get instant feedback with flying —
that's the thing I enjoy most. It's a mental and physical exercise
that gives you instant feedback on what you're doing and I
enjoy that."
— John Dunn

Spring2004 'GEORGIATECH 4 7

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V Ironman Endurance
Bill Murphy began the first leg of his journey to becoming
an Ironman 10 years ago. "It had a lot to do with being 29 and
turning 30," says Murphy, EE 87, MS EE 91, an engineer with
Scientific Atlanta. "I felt myself getting older."
Murphy began running with a 50-year-old colleague. "He
cooked my goose. That's when I caught the running bug."
He ran in several marathons and achieved a personal goal
in 1998 — running the Boston Marathon in under three hours.
He also started cross training in swimming. He soon added biking to the program,
"One thing I've learned is that a triathlon is really good for
people who aren't great at one particular sport," he says. "You
can be a pretty good runner, a pretty good cyclist, a pretty
good swimmer and be an excellent triathlon athlete."
Murphy began competing in international distance race
events, which include swimming 1.5 kilometers, biking 40 kilometers and running 10 kilometers. Last November, just before
turning 40, he competed in the Ironman Florida Triathlon and
qualified for the world championship next October in Hawaii.
"I was pleased with my race," says Murphy, who finished
sixth in his age group. Because the five faster times were by
foreigners, he holds the American record for his age category
at Ironman Florida.
Now Murphy looks forward to Hawaii. "That's been one of
my dreams," he says. "It's an event I'll be happy doing."
— John Dunn

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Of the 51 marathons Ray Moses Jr. has run, one stands
out as extraordinary — the Rocket City Marathon on Dec. 10,
1994, when he and his wife, Alice, got married.
"We ran 20 miles, got married and then ran the other six
miles," recalls Moses, AE 64, of Huntsville, Ala., a retired
Boeing engineer.
Moses began running 20 years ago because of hypertension. He is a member of the Huntsville Track Club, of
which Dave Purinton, AE 90, MS AE 91, is president.
"I've run more marathons, but he's a lot faster," says
Moses, who, during a 40-career, worked on the space shuttle
when it was called the orbitor, the Viking before it was called
the Viking and "the national aerospace plane," which never
got built. He ended his career at Boeing working on the
space station.
After retiring he taught aerospace engineering in
Sweden and astronomy in Korea.
"I was in Lapland for 18 months, through two winters and
one summer, and I taught in the Swedish Space Engineers
Program at the Umea University branch at Kiruna, an ironmining town on the world's northernmost railroad," he says.
"My wife and I ran all winter when we lived in Lapland. The
Swedes thought we were crazy."
— John Dunn

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Competitive Balance

Warren Kitchens knows Ironman training can run
roughshod over everything else, so when he incorporated it into
his lifestyle, he let it compete with everything else.
"I use Ironman and triathlon training as part of a healthy
lifestyle," says Kitchens, BC 91. "I train as much as I can, but I
try to balance that with soccer games, school and the PTA.
"My 'IronWife' and 'IronKids' provide incredible support and
inspiration, with most of my training done at times that do not
interfere with our active family schedule," he says.
Ironman training is also juggled to fit around his career as a
senior manager with Ernst & Young in Atlanta.
Kitchens ran cross-country and track in high school and
resumed running after graduating from Tech. "I slowly got back
into it — running and biking. Somewhere during the next 10
years, I worked my way up to marathons. I eventually tried this
crazy Ironman thing."
He competed in the Ironman Florida in 2001, the Great
Florida Iron Distance in 2002 and the Ironman Florida again in
November, qualifying for the world championship in Hawaii.
"There were 14 people who qualified in my age group and I
was No. 12. After racing all day for nine hours and 48 minutes, I
ended up qualifying by a minute and 24 seconds."
He will compete in the Ironman Triathlon World
Championship in Kona, Hawaii, in October. He plans to make it
a family event. "My family and I are flying out there for two
weeks — hopefully my bicycle will make it."
— John Dunn

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Asthmatic to Athletic

When she was 7, Ashley Espy's doctors told her parents
she needed exercise to help her asthma.
"They wanted me to do cardiovascular exercise to
improve my breathing. Swimming is actually best, but our
small town didn't have a swim team, so I started running,"
says Espy, Phys 00.
She hasn't stopped running. Espy was on the track team
throughout middle and high school and was a member of
Georgia Tech's women's track team.
Now a PhD candidate in astronomy at the University of
Florida, where she earned her master's degree last spring,
Espy trains with the competitive division of the Florida Track
Club and completed her first marathon in December. She has
also qualified for this year's Boston Marathon.
"I run every day twice a day. In the mornings I run about
eight miles, then seven to 12 miles at night, depending on if I
am running on my own or with the track club," she says. "I run
20 miles every Saturday."
Espy says running serves as a mental release for her.
"It really does relieve stress. Last spring while I was finishing my master's degree, there were so many things I had to
do I thought I might take some time off from running, but I
think it would have been worse if I had," says Espy. "It's something I really look forward to every day. I've actually solved
problems while running."
— Maria M, Lameiras

Spring2004 'GEORGIATECH 4 9

< To the Point
Coe A. Bloomberg, one of
California's high-profile "super
lawyers" and a Georgia Tech letterman, has discovered a talent for
needlepoint.
Bloomberg, ME 66, an attorney
with Jones Day Reavis & Progue in
Los Angeles and a past president of
the Georgia Tech Club in Southern
California, says he stumbled into his
pastime.
"I was in a trial in London. I was
walking from my hotel to the courthouse. I went by a shop window
and they had a pillow in the window
with a black lab's head on it. It
looked just like the black lab that I
loved dearly and that I have had for
many years," Bloomberg says.
But when Bloomberg went
inside to buy the pillow, it wasn't for
sale.
"It turned out that it was a
needlepoint shop," Bloomberg says.
"The pillow was just a sample of
what you could do. I thought, 'Well,
I'll give it a try.'"
During the past half dozen
years, Bloomberg has become very
good at his craft. "What I have done
for the last few years is a religious
piece during Lent," says
Bloomberg, who is Catholic. "I've
started one for Lent this year."
After graduating from Tech,
where he lettered in swimming, he
earned his juris doctor with special
recognition from Loyola of Los
Angeles.
His area of practice is intellectual property in the fields of biotechnology, pharmaceuticals and medical devices. He and his wife, Kathy,
have two grown children and live in
Pacific Palisades, Calif.
Bloomberg enjoys keeping in
shape working out with weights five
days a week, but he finds needlepoint relaxing.
"It's not as intensive a concentration," he says. "You can do
needlepoint and reflect on things,
think about issues. I sometimes
have my best ideas when I'm doing
needlepoint."
â&#x20AC;&#x201D; John Dunn

A Stress-free Fast Lane
Larry Huang accelerated his passion for sports car racing
to a new level this year â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and the vehicle he's driving bears the
Georgia Tech logo and the school colors.
Huang, IM 73, is co-founder of Ciena Corp., an optical
communications company, and serves on the Georgia Tech
Foundation Board of Trustees. He endowed the Lawrence P.
Huang Chair in Engineering Entrepreneurship at Georgia Tech
and committed $5 million to the Huang Executive Education
Center in the College of Management.
The Georgia Tech car driven by Huang, a No. 39 Crawford
Manufactured Daytona Prototype, made its debut at the Grand
Prix of Miami at Homestead-Miami Speedway on
Feb. 26 sponsored by Silverstone Racing.
Huang is paired with Chris Hall, a former
champion Formula Ford driver who is also the
co-founder and operator of Silverstone Racing.
"It was a brand new car delivered a few
weeks before the Homestead race, which
was the first time we actually ran the car,"
Huang says. "We had a good race. We finished 10th overall out of about 45 cars."
Among the competitors he beat was
actor and racing enthusiast Paul Newman.
"We had a power steering system fail after
about one-third of the race, so we drove the
rest of the race without power steering, which
was very, very difficult," Huang says.

Huang began racing seriously in 2000, competing in Sports
Car Club of America amateur events. He successfully competed
in the Ferrari Challenge Series and took the overall championship in the 2002 Panoz Racing Series. Huang drove a No. 39
Corvette in the 2003 Grand-Am Series, in which he and Hall finished third at Barber Motorsport Park.
"We decided to step up to the top level of competition the Rolex series," Huang says. The Georgia Tech car will compete in the 11 races of the 2004 Grand American Rolex Sports
Car Series.
"We've entered into a kind of a partnership with Georgia
Tech," he says. "We're using some of GT Motorsports' mechanical engineering students as part of our crew and we're using
some of the business school students to help market
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are Matt Stephens, Scott Flanagan and Kevin
Bray, all members of GT Motorsports,
Tech's Formula student racing team.
When he's out of the car watching a
race, Huang says the tremendous sense
of speed "makes you stand back a little." But it's different competing in the
race.
"Actually, when you're in the car
and you hit 190 like we did at Daytona,
you don't get much sensation of speed."
â&#x20AC;&#x201D; John Dunn
Spring 2004 'GEORGIA TECH 5 1

Custom Cabochons

A A Precise Art
Catherine Bigelow was always in awe of the ornate
stained glass windows she saw in church on Sundays.
"I loved seeing the patterns in the glass and just how
beautiful the windows were," says Bigelow, MS CE 77, PhD
84, acting program director of airport and aircraft safety
research and development for the Federal Aviation
Administration at the William J. Hughes Technical Center in
New Jersey.
Several years ago her local hardware store held a class
on creating stained glass art.
"I took one class, then four or five more, getting more and
more advanced. I've been doing it ever since," she says.
She advanced from "little sun-catcher things" to creatively designed works of art that can take 100 hours.
"I just finished a panel for my boss who retired in January
and the one before that was another panel for a co-worker
who retired," she says.
The panels — both of which were about 22 inches tall
and 20 inches wide — were designed by Bigelow. The first
was a copy of a panel in her office featuring white magnolias
surrounded by frosted glass and a frame in greens and purples and the other was created from a photo of golfers walking on a course.
"I like to give gifts that are unique and that also have a
personal meaning to the person," Bigelow says. "Actually the
next thing I'm doing is for my sister. She recently constructed
a new house and I've already got the pattern drawn for two
window panels for her house."
Not everyone would be willing to work so hard on a gift,
but Bigelow enjoys the challenge.
"I like laying out the designs and thinking of the colors
and the kinds of glass I need to get the effect I want," she
says. "I like the creativity and the detail work when I'm cutting
out the pieces and getting them to fit all together. I like the
manual dexterity it takes."
— Maria M, Lameiras

5 2 GEORGIA TECH * Spring 2004

Laura Knight's hobby of creating jewelry makes money, not
only for her, but also for charity.
A former Savannah, Ga., disc jockey, Knight, Mgt 85, MS
Pub Pol 96, has operated her own business, Knight
Environmental Consultants in Athens, Ga., since 1992. Six years
ago she got serious about her hobby of making jewelry and
learned silversmithing skills. She works in silver, gold and
beads.
"One of my pieces was featured in a silent auction for
Weekend for Wildlife recently and it raised $475 for the charity,"
Knight says. "I'm also donating a piece to an organization for
battered women."
She puts on demonstrations at shows, creating a design
and cutting a cabochon, taking a rough stone to a polished
piece in about five minutes.
"Lapis is my favorite stone for a demo because it looks so
beautiful once it's polished," she says.
Knight is working on a doctorate at the University of
Georgia, where she is studying the endangered short-nosed
sturgeon in the Savannah River.
"I'm dealing with marine science and it requires very
intense focus," Knight says. "Making jewelry is a great way to
relieve stress."
— John Dunn

Botanical Bliss
Ever since Harold Kaplan made a drastic career change in
1977, botany has been a delightful diversion.
After an 18-year career in engineering, Kaplan, IE 54,
returned to school and in 1977 earned a doctorate in botany
from Oregon State University. The former director of research for
Pennwalt Corp. became a university biology professor, a middle
school science teacher and an agricultural consultant whose
clients included Sunkist Growers.
In 1992 at age 60, Kaplan retired and joined the Peace
Corps. "It was the best thing I ever did," he says of his threeyear assignment in Paraguay. "It was the best job I ever had."
The Paraguay project involved planting trees.
"It was reforestation. The discipline was called environmental education. You get out into a village and you do what you can
do. I had several squadrons of village kids putting in trees all of
the time," Kaplan says.
When he returned from the Peace Corps in 1995, Kaplan
settled in Redwood Valley, Calif., where his property includes
acreage for the pursuit of botanical pleasures. He especially
favors growing plants native to California, like the Calochorthus,
a member of the lilly family that blooms only a few days every
year. It is a proud accomplishment. "Calochorthus is very difficult to transplant and very difficult to make happen," he says.
This spring he is putting out 105 California buckeyes from
seeds he harvested last fall. "Buckeyes are easy to get started
— you hardly need a PhD," he says.
— John Dunn

> Gospel Train
Architect Bill Stanley usually has a
song in his heart. It might be from a
Broadway musical or an oldie, but more
than likely, it's going to be a traditional spiritual.
Stanley, Arch 72, has been singing in
church choirs since he was a boy. "When
I'm feeling low, I'll sing happy songs," he
says. "When I'm feeling particularly agitated, I'll sing slow songs."
Stanley sings bass and the songs that
give him the most pleasure are Negro spirituals and taking part in a four-part harmony. He is a member of the choir at St. Paul's
African Methodist Episcopal Church on
Pryor Road in Atlanta. He sometimes sings
spiritual songs a cappella.
"I find that Sunday mornings are particularly good for relieving the stress of the
week," Stanley says. "I'll go in and chime
right in.
"When you're singing, you focus your
attention on the music, on the tune, on the
tempo, on the cadence — and on trying to
get it right," Stanley says.
— John Dunn

Y Here and Now
The worst thing James Matthews can say about yoga is it
occasionally gives a colleague the opening to do a little goodnatured ribbing,
Matthews, MgtSci 75, is vice president of finance and chief
financial officer of the Georgia Gulf chemical company and a
self-proclaimed "yoga fanatic."
There is a lot of misconception that yoga's gentle stretches
wouldn't appeal to men, Matthews says. "There are classes like
that, but many are very rigorous and I feel it helps in building
strength."
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doing tai chi in California while earning his law degree at
Stanford University.
Matthews practices hatha yoga three to five times a week in
hour-and-a-half sessions at Peachtree Yoga in Atlanta.
"It's fun and it's nice to do something fun that is also a
source of exercise and relaxation," Matthews says. "One of the
phrases they use in yoga is that it brings you into the moment.
Sometimes when you are thinking about what the quarterly
financials will be or about some issue you know is going to
come up a week or a month or six months in the future, it is
good to have something that is sufficiently challenging enough
that you focus on what you are doing right at that moment. It
helps you relax to think about what you are doing right now and
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Who Makes
the Rules?
Global debate grows
on governing the Internet
By Maria M. Lameiras

G

eorgia Tech public policy professor Hans Klein likens the debate
over the governance of the Internet to
the U.S. Constitutional Convention.
"The foundational issue in any
Internet policy question is who makes
the rules and through what process,"
Klein says. "This is a constitutional
issue, and it is playing out today for
Internet policy-making. It is a global
Internet and there are a lot of policy
questions out there, but before you can
make substantive policies that apply to
everyone at a global level, you have to
decide who makes those rules."
Because his area of expertise is
technology as it relates to public policy,
Klein's research often lends itself to
participation in policy-making. He
chairs the board of Computer
Professionals for Social Responsibility
and has become involved in the debate
over who manages the Internet and
whether business interests are superseding individuals' interests.
Klein, who has been a professor at
Tech since 1996, spent 2002 at the Ecole
des Mines in Paris on a Chateaubriand
fellowship researching global democracy and the governance of the
Internet.
Using the example of the World
Trade Organization, which makes the
rules for global trade, Klein says issues
of credibility need to be addressed
when considering Internet governance.
"The WTO is controversial
because they make rules by getting
people behind closed doors and bargaining. Environmental and labor
interests have been excluded, leading
to today's debate over why some
stakeholders don't have a voice in the
process," Klein says.

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Hans Klein says there aren't many secrets
anymore. "Everything you do on the Internet
is traceable, un-erasable and surveillable."

In 1998, the Internet Corporation
for Assigned Names and Numbers
was formed to address the allocation
of Internet resources such as IP
addresses and domain names.
"In order to be on the Internet,
you need an IP address and there is
some degree of scarcity of those. For
example, MIT has more IP addresses
than all of China," Klein says. "MIT
was a part of creating the Internet and
the assignation of IP addresses was
done very informally because at the
time, no one cared. But now, the stakes
are very high for such decisions.
ICANN has moved the Internet away
from such informal procedures, but it

has yet to create transparent operating
procedures that produce decisions seen
as fair."
There is also some debate over
domain names and whether large corporations can lay claim to certain
words used in a domain name.
"There are no global rules governing intellectual property. Those rules
are all made at the national level, and
there are increasing efforts to make
rules of property for the Internet,"
Klein says.
However, ICANN â&#x20AC;&#x201D; which was
designed to give equal voice to business and individual interests on the
Internet â&#x20AC;&#x201D; is now predominantly run

FacultyProfile
by corporations, according to Klein.
"ICANN's creation was like the
Constitutional Convention for cyberspace," says Klein, who was involved
in designing the organization and
deciding who would get a voice in it.
"ICANN had a lot of promise to
become a legitimate rule-making body
for the Internet. Its board was supposed to have 50 percent of its members elected by industry and 50 percent
elected by individual users so interests
would be balanced.
"What happened is that the busi-

by anyone. However, if the rules by
which companies are able to trademark at the national level is extended
to the global level, that is forging new
ground in global intellectual property
law," he says.
"The whole Internet is a decentralized, free place except that you need
an IP address or a domain name to get
on and to get one of those you have to
go to ICANN or one of their authorized retail outlets. A control point
exists for access to the Internet and
that point has been subjected to indus-

There are no global rules governing intellectual property.
Those rules are all made at the national level, and
there are increasing efforts to make rules of property
for the Internet. ICANN's creation was like the
Constitutional Convention for cyberspace.
ness side of the equation decided it
would rather not be counterbalanced.
They acted quickly on the fact that it
was hard to define how to represent
the users."
By 1998, industry had selected its
board members and the body began
making rules that addressed business
interests, including eliminating consumer representation to the board
before individual Internet users could
elect all their board members.
"At that point it went from a positive experiment in global governance
to a negative example of industry capture," Klein says. "What is happening
now is that there is a challenge to
ICANN by the United Nations because
ICANN is not seen as a legitimate
body.
"ICANN's policy to protect trademarks in domain names has generated
the most controversy. This is a first
case of global regulation on trademarks."
For example, in the United States
Apple Computer has a certain amount
of legal ownership of the word
"apple;" however, that does not necessarily extend to other countries, Klein
says.
"The rest of the world has been
less keen to see the word apple owned

try capture," Klein adds. "Now the
U.N. is stepping in. I'm not sure if the
U.N. cares about user rights, but
ICANN is seen as a club of a few select
governments and large global corporations and the U.N. knows you can't
have a global regulator controlled by a
couple of governments and a subset of
businesses."
In December, Klein traveled to the
U.N. World Summit on the
Information Society, a gathering that
produced a "Declaration of Principles"
and a "Plan of Action" that cover hundreds of topics as far-ranging as infrastructure deployment, cultural diversity and intellectual property.
"The idea is that if there is industry or government capture of an organization regulating the Internet, there is
another place available to challenge
that, and the little guy benefits," Klein
says.
Another of Klein's research interests is online democracy at the local,
national and global levels.
"I am looking at local social movements and examining how local
groups use the Internet to coordinate
and to influence public policy and
social change at the local level," Klein
says. "One crucial part of democracy is
freedom of association, how do you

get like-minded people together, and
the Internet is pretty good at doing
that."
In addition to his research, Klein
started the Internet and Public Policy
Project at Tech (www.ip3.gatech.edu), a
campus group to coordinate Internet
policy-related research at Tech and to
offer opportunities for discussion of
those issues. It sponsors guest speakers, workshops, forums and conferences, inviting researchers and experts
from the community to campus to connect the academic research community
with policy-makers.
"I think the Institute has to play a
role here. Harvard is perhaps the university best known for having speakers
and debates on public issues, and the
Southeast needs that too. Georgia Tech,
because of its location in the state capital and the biggest industrial center in
the Southeast, has both the opportunity and the duty to offer forums on
public issues," Klein says.
A seminar on the Patriot Act featured a debate between former U.S.
Rep. Bob Barr, an open critic of the legislation, and Assistant U.S. Attorney
Randy Chartash, whose office is
responsible for enforcing the act.
"The United States has discovered
the importance of surveillance," Klein
says. "We fought the Cold War against
countries that were so paranoid they
spied on their own people because of
'dangerous elements.' Now the United
States seems to have concluded that
we, too, have a society full of 'dangerous elements' and that the Internet is a
good tool for keeping track of people
in our society.
"This issue still has to play out,
but there aren't many secrets anymore.
The Internet makes it possible, as
everything goes online, to track what
people do.
"Whenever anyone gets on the
Internet, they leave a lot of trails and,
if all of that is accessible, the dividing
line between what is in your head and
private and what is out in the world
disappears. Everything you do on the
Internet is traceable, un-erasable and
surveillable and that is something to
be concerned about." GT

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Into the Wild Blue
Skydivers from the Georgia Tech Inviscid parachute team
glide into formation 10,500 feet above Lake Wales, Fla. The
Yellow Jackets defeated the Air Force Academy to win the
collegiate championship of the United States Parachute
Association national skydiving competition in December â&#x20AC;&#x201D;
the first nonmilitary school to win in almost a decade.

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